Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

Hi thanks for the wiki.
I have a problem, I tried to make a copy of a dvd but the output file is 5,1GB, (I thought K9Copy automatically reduced the size to fit 4,7GB?)
I don't find any settings to correct this.
Any help appreciated!

Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

I've had 50/50 success rate using K9Copy. It seems to do fine on older dvd's, but I have had Zero success on anything new. For that, I would have to use DVDFab Decrypter for Windows. Even DVDShrink, and DVD Decrypter are choking on anything new.

Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

I just wanted to add, you might want to try the current version of k9copy (1.0.4). I had problems backing-up several dvds with the 1.0.2-ubuntu dapper version in the repositories (such as not being able to copy with menus, freezing mid stream on certain dvds, not being able to shrink to the right size). However with version 1.0.4 installed from source so far (only about 10 dvds) I have had no problem backing up dvds using version 1.0.4, even ones that had errors with k9copy 1.0.2-ubuntu (and i am copying 8.5 Gb dvds to single 4.7 Gb w/o noticable compression loss of quality).

The only problem is right now you have to install it from source, and have to install several dev packages to do so properly. I posted a previous post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...1&postcount=12
explaining how i got installing the source to work in dapper 6.06.

Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

I just added a section to the wiki on installation from source. I found a changelog online at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23885 that lists some of the improvements of version 1.0.4-2 over 1.0.2 (dapper version) and 1.0.3 (breezy repos.knit.it version) including:

Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

When I compile from source I run into these problems. Installing the dependencies first i get most of them except the following pasted below:

navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-dev
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdebase-dev: Depends: kdelibs4-dev (>= 4:3.5-rc1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs4-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdelibs4-dev: Depends: libavahi-client-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
navyn@navyn-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libavahi-client-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Re: Rip and shrink DVDs with K9Copy

This has been something that I was looking trying to find for quite some time now. After reading the wiki and the forum, I've found this program to be perfect. I have dvdxcopy for windows, but it takes two hours to copy a dvd. With k9copy it took 30 mins flat and it was so easy. I love it!